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How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period

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Re: How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period

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Post by hatu »

doesitmakesound wrote: post #10
poopsintub wrote: post #7

I hate to be a downer but you're flirting with disaster here. Copyright infringement everywhere.

We only offer shirts we have agreements with the artists with, are created/recreated by us, or have no searchable creation. There has been a couple times someone said "I made that!" and we add them into the royalty group when it looks like they are. I don't know if we have to do that even, but we do. Most shirts people submit have licensing issues and the shirts we have with licensing besides Astrosloth don't sell as…

Do you mean the original artist or whoever random internet dweller decided to submit one of the memes?

Re: How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period

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Post by doesitmakesound »

hatu wrote: post #31
doesitmakesound wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We only offer shirts we have agreements with the artists with, are created/recreated by us, or have no searchable creation. There has been a couple times someone said "I made that!" and we add them into the royalty group when it looks like they are. I don't know if we have to do that even, but we do. Most shirts people submit have licensing issues and the shirts we have with licensing besides Astrosloth don't sell as…

Do you mean the original artist or whoever random internet dweller decided to submit one of the memes?

Both. Original artists are easy to find and talk to. Or if a post was obviously originated somewhere, I messag ethem on whatever site that is.

Re: How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period

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Post by doesitmakesound »

adventured wrote: post #24
arb99 wrote: post #23

Huge copyright infringement on so many of their designs...

"then we do licensing / design work" I would guess by that the person means they work out arrangements on licensing and or decide if any licensing is necessary.

Yeah, that shapes what we can offer.

Re: How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period

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Post by doesitmakesound »

SG- wrote: post #14

What are you shirt printing costs? I know the amount of colors and things used factor in as well as the amount of shirts ordered. also how many shirts to you print for your first run?

We use nice shirts and printers. The shirts cost ~$5 - 5.50 (and more for larger sizes). The coverage of the shirt dictates the price of that, full coverage being ~$10 for loq quantity. Cost decrease quite a bit if the order of that shirt is high. (down to $7.50). We're using a market penetration model but really I just want to reach out and talk to people I want involved in creating shirts, voting, and selling. I am very responsive and available.

Re: How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period

#35

Post by doesitmakesound »

skizm wrote: post #12

That's awesome. Few questions: 40k revenue or profit? If it was rev then what was your profit (and vice versa)? And are you worried that the sort of initial wave of traffic will die down and you'll be left only selling a couple dozen shirts a week? I mean this sort of thing (to me) seems like it is an awesome effort at capitalizing on something that went viral, but how do you plan on sustaining (or even growing) thes…

Tried commenting on this earlier but was spam blocked.

1. Revenue 2. Estimated ~25% That number gets larger with quantity. I'm more focused on getting more people exposed to the concept and signed up for our shirt picking surveys. 3. Not really but it is a real worry. The submitted designs -> voting -> new shirts concept is repeatable. I also have my thoughts towards building a platform around that. Imgur for shirts. 4. Sustaining and growing, yes since my livelihood depends on it but really I love this concept and am having a lot of fun. I don't see why we wouldn't grow, that would be a failure to execute. I am also going to look for a minor seed investment to enable me to do more things.

Re: How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period

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Post by poopsintub »

doesitmakesound wrote: post #32
hatu wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean the original artist or whoever random internet dweller decided to submit one of the memes?

Both. Original artists are easy to find and talk to. Or if a post was obviously originated somewhere, I messag ethem on whatever site that is.

I'm interested how long it took you for a huge company like Disney to get back to you. Did they charge you anything?

Re: How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period

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Post by skizm »

doesitmakesound wrote: post #35
skizm wrote: post #12

That's awesome. Few questions: 40k revenue or profit? If it was rev then what was your profit (and vice versa)? And are you worried that the sort of initial wave of traffic will die down and you'll be left only selling a couple dozen shirts a week? I mean this sort of thing (to me) seems like it is an awesome effort at capitalizing on something that went viral, but how do you plan on sustaining (or even growing) thes…

Tried commenting on this earlier but was spam blocked. 1. Revenue 2. Estimated ~25% That number gets larger with quantity. I'm more focused on getting more people exposed to the concept and signed up for our shirt picking surveys. 3. Not really but it is a real worry. The submitted designs -> voting -> new shirts concept is repeatable. I also have my thoughts towards building a platform around that. Imgur for shirts.…

Thanks for the reply. Good luck with everything.
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